115-71 222nd Street

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

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1931
Monda & Bertolazzi pair 115-71 with No. 115-69 under one peaked vestibule
Selective Homes Inc. built this two-story Storybook row house in 1931 (permit NB 2167-31) to designs by Monda & Bertolazzi. It mirrors No. 115-69, sharing a five-sided vestibule with a round-arched entrance and a wide gambrel-shaped, half-timbered gable, and it shares a narrow projecting chimney trimmed in stone with No. 115-73. It still keeps its wood first-floor window with leaded sashes of clear and colored diamond panes.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1940
NBC television engineer Raymond Monfort rents 115-71 with his wife Martha
In 1940 the house was rented by Raymond Monfort, a Kansas native, and his wife Martha. Monfort had joined NBC's engineering department in 1932, when radio still dominated, and in 1940 the network named him maintenance supervisor of its young New York television operation. The Landmarks Preservation Commission's district report calls him a pioneering television engineer, one of the street's residents that year.
“Kansas native Raymond Monfort, who rented 115-71 222nd Street with his wife Martha, was a pioneering television engineer.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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